adding new gravatar image

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  jill139 · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 5:47 pm

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  I am trying and not succeeding uploading a jpg grata image for my new account. Advice? Help? How much time should it take to upload a 2,600×2,00 jpg file?

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  doncharisma · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 6:26 pm

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  My understanding is the gravatar images are square – so probably ought to be same dimensions eg 2600×2600 … Also 2600 is quite a wide image for a gravatar, this link – http://blog.gravatar.com/2012/07/30/retina/ indicates that the maximum width is 2048.

  So I’d suggest resizing the image to a maximum of 2048×2048. And then try uploading again.

  Hope this helps

  Cheers

  Don Charisma

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  jill139 · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 6:28 pm

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  Thanks. I’m giving it a try in a sec. This is my first day on word press, and I’m lost in the woods….. and the words for how to do things!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 6:32 pm

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  That’s a ridiculously large image file and I strongly suggest you do not waste your free media storage space. Instead I instead to get the best image quality you ought to optimize and pre-size all images to fit where they will be displayed prior to uploading them. For help with free ways to do that see here Cropper or Proper Image Preparation?

  Gravatars/blavatars (favicons) do not show up instantly after uploading them. Gravatar images are cached and frequently take several days to display after a change.

  Dashboard → Settings → General

  Do not keep uploading!
  Do not forget to select an image rating.

  See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/blavatars/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/

  For best practices for uploading gravatars, avatars and blavatars including appropriate image sizes for uploading scroll down to below the video here: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/24/gravatar-avatar-blavatar/

  To enable Gravatar display and hovercard display on your blog go to > Settings > Discussion and scroll way done the page to “Avatars”.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/gravatar-hovercards/

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  timethief · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 6:34 pm

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  Edit: I instead was meant to be I suggest
  Sorry :( I am visually challenged and do not always catch my errors before clicking submit.

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  jill139 · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 4:32 am

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  Got the gravatar image posted…. thanks for all the help. The instructions said to upload the best image of any size, so that’s what I did at first. Obviously, not a good idea. Thanks for the virtual village.